Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The collapse of AWS and the sovereign risk of uncontrolled data

Although the outage lasted just over three hours, the effects of the blackout were still being felt by the end of Monday, October 20. The cause was an error in an API update that affected the DNS. In Europe, the incident reignited the debate over the need to create its own cloud and reduce dependence on U.S. big tech companies.

The outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) early on Monday, October 20, in Europe left a trail of questions among regulators and policymakers about the true extent of dependence on big tech companies for cloud infrastructure.

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